Nazariya - Drishti – Natarani Film Club presents Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times( 1936)

He stands alone as the greatest entertainer of modern times! No one in earth can make you laugh as heartily or touch your heart as deeply… the whole world laughs, cries and thrills to his priceless genius!

The film is a satire on modern industrialization and the way it trivialized and dehumanized human beings. The movie boasts of several famous images, from the opening shot where a group of factory workers are juxtaposed against the image of a flock of sheep, to the tramp being literally swallowed by the machine, to the famous feeding machine that feeds the tramp and becomes maniacally uncontrolled. Set in post-depression America, the tramp and the waif (Paulette Goddard) remain endearing outcasts in the troubled, frightening landscape of economic deprivation and unrest, and the parallel emergence of an efficient mechanization in industry that was viewed by

Chaplin with great distrust.

Direction       :  Charles Chaplin

Production     :  Charles Chaplin Production

Language       :  English

Duration         :  87 minutes